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by xputer 5y ago
Remove all parking spots instead of those for disabled people and your issue is resolved. No one will drive into the center unless they're disabled because they won't be able to find parking. So you can massively reduce car lanes,
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by xputer 5y ago
Alternative title: Bitcoin emits almost 2% of the CO2 emitted by the entire world's military industrial complex.
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by xputer 5y ago
Exactly, the substantially higher salaries for tech workers in the US allows them to attract the best and brightest from all over the world.
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by xputer 5y ago
Why did I have to scroll so far to find this? Tech jobs pay almost an order of magnitude more in the US. Cost of living is of course higher and you likely still won't be able to but a house any time soon, but still the difference is st
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by xputer 5y ago
It's also much harder to buy your own place these days.
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by xputer 5y ago
Forget higher rate, I may have paid more federal income taxes than billionaires in several years as according to this article some manage to pay zero dollars: IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax - https://www.p
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by xputer 5y ago
Yup, I somehow managed to graduate with a Master in CS without knowing what grep was...
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by xputer 5y ago
We can thank Dijkstra for that I guess... He was very pro theory and anti practice. Most CS folks from that era had a math or physics background. At Eindhoven University of Technology they still have a Department of Mathematics and Computer
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by xputer 5y ago
I think their point is more that people probably shouldn't get fired for saying something offensive as easily as it is done nowadays.
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by xputer 5y ago
"If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself." Excuse me? If this is not clearly antisemitic, I wonder what is.
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by xputer 5y ago
While I agree with the simplicity argument, I think providing a free service is very different from giving everyone free money. UBI is likely to have many unintended consequences. For example, what would be stopping land lords from hiking r
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by xputer 5y ago
I use Sublime instead of vim/gedit/notepad/notepad++ for quickly viewing files. The main benefit of Sublime over VSCode is that it opens several orders of magnitude faster. However, in terms of doing actual programming work I
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by xputer 5y ago
Yes tbh I don't understand why there isn't more attention devoted to making renewable fuels that are more practical than hydrogen. Until we find a better way to store hydrogen I don't think it'll ever take off.
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by xputer 5y ago
The comparison seems off. What you're missing is monogamy. If your partner does not want to play board games as frequently as you, then it is perfectly acceptable to find someone else to play board games with. With sex in a monogamous
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by xputer 5y ago
A lot of Dutch people live in suburbs and work in cities, that explains the bulk of car traffic. If you look at trips within cities though, the bicycle has a much larger portion. In Amsterdam 38% and in Groningen 57%: https://en.
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by xputer 5y ago
It doesn't have to be expensive. In Ghent they recently did it on a budget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEOA_Tcq2XA The principle is simple: In designated spots, prevent through traffic for cars while allowing bicy
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by xputer 5y ago
Cars and parking lots take up a loooot of space in many American cities though. Space that could have been used to build housing or businesses or mixed-use instead.
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by xputer 5y ago
Regarding crime. A huge factor in that is "eyes on the street." Car friendly streets massively reduce the eyes on the street for two reasons: 1. Cars travel fast and they obstruct the occupants' view in all kinds of direction